Macro Monday: Baby plums
14Monday 20 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday.
Hope you all like it 🙂
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The plum trees are one of the first of the early summer fruits, and are often eaten here when they are still hard, bitter and green, even will salt, but leave the fruit on the tree, two of our trees will produce deep red plums.
Of course like all things in farming life, it’s a battle against nature. With the plums left to mature sweet, it’s me verses the chickens, who will happily munch their way through a few trees laden with plums, apricots, cherries, mulberry’s and figs – bless ’em!
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Uncle Spike's Adventures 
That first picture looks like a green acorn to me.
I am pretty sure you offered to do a guest post on my languishing blog, or am I hallucinating again? Recovering from a head injury on top of having MS -well, they are doing this unpleasant synergistic thing. Anyway, lemme know if you are up for writing a little something.
😉 m & jb who wonders how you are going to feature her prominently, and are you going to interview her, and does she need a new collar for the occasion.
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Haha, nope, definitely a plum 🙂 They are about 1.5cm now and folk start to eat them at about 2cm onwards, especially when green and bitter!
Re guesting; always up for a bit of that, subject to time available and creative juices on tap. Mail me at uncle.spikes.adventures1@gmail.com anytime.
SPIKE
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Chickens are great for fallen fruit. Here I lose lots of fruit to the song birds residing in my trees.
Linda
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Our chooks spend half their days bouncing around in the trees in summer, especially Mulberry and Fig trees.
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Oh, cool. I’ve never had a chicken fly up in a tree.
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Fig trees often have 4 or 5 ,in there munching away. Our neighbour has a large wild green fig on our border, and a big black rooster they used to have would go right to the top of the tree (4 metres) and peck off the fruit for his entourage waiting below – good teamwork!
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Hmm, I can almost taste that fresh fruit.
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In Scotland I loved plums and for many years after we came to Australia plums were not on the menu. In the last few years plums have been widely available – both black and red – but the taste is different. I don’t think it’s me, but definitely not the taste I remember from the UK.. These ones, whatever colour they happen to be, are just bland – very little taste, Disappointing, really.
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Depends on the water a lot I think.
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I love seeing the new growth in Spring. 🙂
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Most of the trees here are in full bloom or already showing fruit – fun times.
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Loads of new growth on that plum .. lots more fruit is on the way.
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Yep, they are 1.5cm now already 🙂
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Wow!
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